History Trivia / GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel

* TheWikiRule: Joepedia, the [[http://gijoe.wikia.com/wiki/Joepedia_-_The_G.I._Joe_Wiki G.I. Joe Wiki]].

* TheWikiRule: Joepedia, the [[http://gijoe.wikia.com/wiki/Joepedia_-_The_G.I._Joe_Wiki G.I. Joe Wiki]].

* ChannelHop: Originally published by Creator/MarvelComics before receiving [[ComicBook/GIJoeDevilsDue a continuation]] published by Creator/ImageComics[=/=]Devil's Due Publishing and afterwards getting another continuation by Creator/IDWPublishing that renders the Devil's Due series non-canon.

* Hama's approach to GI Joe was born out of a rejected proposal he'd made to Marvel for a series to be called ''Fury Force,'' which would have featured the son of Nick Fury leading a team of special operatives against Hydra. Many of the first-generation GI Joe characters were repurposed characters from his pitch; Fury Jr. became Hawk, and Hama based Cobra (which he created himself, as Hasbro hadn't thought to give GI Joe a specific nemesis) on his ideas for Hydra.

** Comic writer Larry Hama, in the Letters page, admitted that while he found several characters silly but did his best with them, there were still a few occasions where he put his foot down and completely refused to write about certain characters. The most famous of these refusals, and the one he reassured his readers he would never write about in the book was Cobra-La from ‘’WesternAnimation/GIJoeTheMovie''. Hama absolutely ''hated'' the entire concept of Cobra-La from the movie, and flatly refused to write so much as a single word about it. He only relented almost 25 years later, penning a Cobra-La comic that was packaged with the redesigned Cobra-La figures. It was even advertised on the package as "The first Cobra-La comic written by Larry Hama."

** Comic writer Larry Hama absolutely ''hated'' the entire concept of Cobra-La from the movie, and flatly refused to write so much as a single word about it. He only relented almost 25 years later, penning a Cobra-La comic that was packaged with the redesigned Cobra-La figures. It was even advertised on the package as "The first Cobra-La comic written by Larry Hama."

* ExecutiveMeddling: According to then Marvel Editor-In-Chief Creator/JimShooter, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100305102446/http://www.nycgraphicnovelists.com/2010/01/swivel-arm-battle-grip-revolution.html the initial printing of the first issue was very low since]] Marvel direct sales lead Mike Friedrich discouraged stores from buying it in favor of the book ''Elric'', which he had made, as well as having a dislike of military books. Following the initial printing selling out and Marvel being forced to make a second printing, Shooter immediately fired Friedrich.

* ExecutiveMeddling: According to then Marvel Editor-In-Chief Creator/JimShooter, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100305102446/http://www.nycgraphicnovelists.com/2010/01/swivel-arm-battle-grip-revolution.html the initial printing of the first issue was very low since]] Marvel direct sales lead Mike Friedrich discouraged stores from buying it, given his dislike of military books. Following the initial printing selling out and Marvel being forced to make a second printing, Shooter immediately fired Friedrich.